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Glenn Seaborg
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acrylic & mixed media on wood
103" x 140"
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i had hoped
to limit the souls portrayed in this “collection” to the living to those individuals occupying the unlikely interval after birth yet before eternity on 25 feb 99 this hope became impossible in a home in lafayette, california that he and his wife had built with their own hands glenn seaborg passed away among many other things he was the co-discoverer of 10 new elements among them, element number 97, berkelium element number 98, californium element number 106, seaborgium in some ways he is more famous than brooke shields but for some reason they don’t hire nobel laureates to do jeans ads |
the abbreviated summary: nobel prize for chemistry co-discoverer of ten new elements and numerous isotopes advisor to seven u.s. presidents redesigner of the periodic table for starters perhaps because his achievements are so myriad his life so large i find it difficult to get my arms my mind around the life of glenn seaborg perhaps this is why i fixate on arcane minutiae and the two morsels i find so captivating are first that he is in the guinness book of world records for having the longest entry in the book who’s who and second that when he got on a train from berkeley to chicago to be a section chief on the manhattan project he carried in his briefcase the world supply of plutonium |
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